Cursor is Anysphere's AI-native code editor with agentic coding, Tab autocomplete, and Bugbot review. Compare Cursor's Hobby, Individual, and Teams pricing.
Cursor is an AI-native code editor, forked from Visual Studio Code, built by Anysphere, Inc., a San Francisco company founded in 2022 by MIT students and dropouts Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Aman Sanger, and Arvid Lunnemark. Rather than bolting AI chat onto a traditional editor, Cursor is designed around agentic workflows where the AI can read across a codebase, edit multiple files, run terminal commands, and iterate based on test or error output.
Anysphere has grown at an unusually fast pace, moving from an $8 million seed round in October 2023 to a $29.3 billion valuation by November 2025, and in June 2026 SpaceX announced an agreement to acquire Anysphere in an all-stock deal valuing the company at roughly $60 billion, with the deal expected to close in Q3 2026.
Core features include Tab, a predictive multi-line autocomplete; Agent (Composer), an autonomous multi-file coding mode; Bugbot, automated pull-request code review; and Cloud Agents, which let coding agents run asynchronously in the background rather than only in a live editor session.
Cursor supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for connecting external tools, and gives users access to multiple frontier AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google alongside Anysphere's own Composer model, rather than locking developers into a single provider.
Cursor offers a free Hobby tier with limited Agent and Tab usage, an Individual plan at $16 per month with extended limits and frontier model access, and a Teams plan at $32 per user per month adding centralized billing, Bugbot code review, and SSO.
Enterprise pricing is custom and adds pooled usage, SCIM provisioning, granular access controls, audit logs, and an AI code-tracking API; a July 2025 change to usage-based billing on the paid individual tier drew user complaints, which Cursor addressed with limit adjustments and refunds.
Cursor is made by Anysphere, Inc., a San Francisco-based company founded in 2022 by Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Aman Sanger, and Arvid Lunnemark.
Yes. Cursor offers a free Hobby plan with limited Agent requests and Tab completions and no credit card required. Paid plans start at $16/month for Individual and $32/user/month for Teams.
Yes. Cursor is built as a fork of Microsoft's open-source Visual Studio Code, which preserves compatibility with most VS Code extensions and keyboard shortcuts while adding deeply integrated AI features.
Agent, also referred to as Composer, is Cursor's autonomous coding mode that can plan and execute multi-step, multi-file coding tasks from natural-language instructions with limited supervision.
Cursor gives users access to multiple frontier models from providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, as well as Anysphere's own in-house Composer model.
In June 2026, SpaceX announced an agreement to acquire Anysphere, Cursor's parent company, in an all-stock deal valuing it at roughly $60 billion, with the transaction expected to close in the third quarter of 2026.